DePo Masthead Theme Launch

This is one beautiful theme that draws on classic magazine design. The style is minimal, yet bold and detail-oriented. There is more here than meets the eye.

So, what’s different about this theme? It’s got lots of dynamic features. The header font changes size depending on the length of your blog title. And, to keep things neat and tidy, the column heights of your the articles on the front page will always be equal, even if one article has more content than another.

The focus in this theme is on your content. Each article starts out with the comments tucked away, allowing your reader to take in your brilliance fully, then expand the comments to start the discussion:

Comments Before & After Unfolding

Take note of the beautiful navigation elements and clever use of typography. And for the widget lovers out there, we’ve turned the bottom right panel of the footer into a widget area.

We hope you enjoy this one!

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I thought the preview looked great, but wasn’t real impressed when I put it into action. Everything is way too big. You guys must have obscenely high resolution on your computers, because the title font is absolutely HUGE on a 1024×768 screen. Bigger isn’t always better. 😉

I am very, very pleased with this theme. In my opinion, it is the best yet I have seen coming to wordpress.com. It is brilliant, professional, and just nice to look at overall. The only problem I have with it is really minute. I only wish that the sidebar or widgets could be evened out at the bottom (since the posts show on the top) instead of it showing as one straight long line of text, links, and pictures down the one side.

Other than that, it is magnificently flawless, and I would love to see more professional, well organized, themes like this hit wordpress.com.

Looks great! Two questions – is it possible to stop my name appearing in the border at the top? I’d like to use it for http://www.stbartspa.net (one of, er, lots of WP based websites and blogs I run). I also can’t figure out how to get the blog to appear as three columns rather than one. Are there any notes/a user guide available for idiots like me? Cheers.

I probably should have pointed out that it wouldn’t be appropriate for my name to appear at the top of http://www.stbartspa.net I guess I could register a whole new WP account which doesn’t use my name, but I’d rather not.

Yeah, the theme is a good idea, but I agree with ricojr that the third column is way too long with a lot of space being wasted in the first and second column.
If you have long post titles, then they overlap in the before and after.
Teething problems?

Certainly a very different theme and we need different themes so there is a wide choice for different types of blogs out there. It gets irritating if about 5 themes are almost similar! Therefore I think this theme is a great idea and kudos to the designer.

It looks pretty good. But it’s a problem that shorter posts leave a lot of blank space after them if the post next to it is longer. If it is possible it would be nice if just the top part of the posts appeared and that you had to click on a link to get to the full story. That would also make it possible to have more posts on the front page (3*3?).

Agree with ricojr,
Lovely theme with two minor flaws!
1) The Before and After is a great idea but long post names flow together and are illegible.
2) Archives are not complete in column two, seems a bit odd!

I’m not to keen on it to be honest, it’s rather bland, I think the colours could have been better. Anyhow, I’m displaying albeo now on my blog and it’s looking fantastic and my readers think so too! so, thankyou! xx

Very nice font – easy to read. As has been said, though, the title font is way too big. Like other posters, I’m not convinced by having the archives and the rest of a normal sidebar’s contents at the bottom, I’m afraid – too easily overlooked, I think.

[1]a few widgets too many, and the friggin thing’s got an unwanted tail down bottom-right…will await for an upgrade that allows me to use the bottom columns more effectively.
[2]any post that has an “insert more tag” in it…well, the extra info seems inaccessible, çoz the “read more” links don’t turn up

It’s beautiful, overall…and i may still choose to apply it…dunno, flipping a coin seems an option…

However, if the above arrears can be corrected, i’ll have found a theme i truly love!

It’s my new theme now, thanks to the creator! It’s very professional looking, and I love the newspaper layout. The only thing I’m concerned about is the extra widgets. I have a lot and it seems like they’re all placed in the last column. I wonder if I need some css skills.

I tried this theme for http://www.harmonystreetstudio.com and my header text, “HarmonyStreetStudio.Com” was very large and moved off to the right. The “Com” part did not fit the width of the theme format.

Did anyone else experience this? It’s a beautiful, innovative theme. I would like to use it.

It’s very good theme and interesting. I decided to use it on one of my blogs, but there are some flaws mentioned in some posts earlier. The most important are that I can’t choose which widget put in which column and that archives are not complete in second column.

I’ve found yet another bug. In the archives are only ten posts on page and there is no possibility to look at rest of the posts (np more pages “1, 2, 3 …”). When I make it possible to publish 30 posts on a page, than main page became a one colum page.

It would be also great for me to have possibility to translate some words into Polish (before, after, archives, feed, Edit this entry, read more and comment, and so on) because many words in this theme are in English, but I write blog in Polish and have Polish readers. I could help in this.